SMOS '09 Agenda and Presentations

Wednesday, 11 March 2009
	12:00-14:00	Buffet Lunch
	14:00-14:10	Welcome, Logistics, Programme	A. Hahne, ESA-ESTEC
	14:10-14:30	SMOS Project Status	A. Hahne, ESA-ESTEC
	14:30-14:50	SMOS VRT Coordination	S. Delwart, ESA-ESTEC
	14:50-15:20	SMOS Commissioning Plan	M. Martin-Neira, ESA-ESTEC
	15:20-15:35	Calibration & Validation Plan Overview	C. Bouzinac, ESTEC
	15:35-16:00	Coffee / Tea Break
	16:00-16:30	SM Validation Overview	Y. Kerr, CESBIO, France
	16:30-17:00	OS Validation Overview	J. Font, ICM, Spain
	17:00-17:15	Campaign Overview	C. Bouzinac, ESTEC
	17:15-17:30	Tools Presentation & Test Data Sets	R. Crapolicchio, ESRIN
	17:30-20:00	Poster Session Tool Demonstrations Welcome Drink
Thursday 12 March 2009
	09:00-10:30	Vicarious Calibration of Brightness Temperature
	09:00	SMOS calibration sites in the Australian arid zone	J.Walker
	09:20	Comparison of SMOS data with in-situ measurements at Dome-C and with model simulations	S.Paloscia
	09:40	SMOS validation in the Takeliman desert	W.Zhang
	10:00	SMOS activities at ECMWF: global monitoring and data assimilation study	P.de Rosnay
	10:20-10:30	Coffee/Tea Break
	10:30-12:00	Other Level 1 Issues
	10:30	RFI status: where and how to deal with it	N.Skou
	11:00	Brightness temperature maps reconstruction	E.Anterrieu
	11:30	Geolocation biases calibration over Madagascar coastline	F.Cabot
	13:00-14:00	Buffet Lunch
	12:00-18:00	Parallel Sessions
	Soil Moisture Validation Ocean Salinity Validation 12:00 Integrating SMOS and SMAP soil moisture validation (T. Jackson) SSS validation with the Aquarius Validation Data System (G. Lagerloef) 12:30 Recent cal/val activities at REMEDHUS (J.Martinez) Towards the validation of SMOS ocean surface salinity (C.Gommenginger) 14:00 Upper Danube Anchor Station (A.Loew) CAROLS in 2008 and 2009 (M.Zribi) 14:30 Soil moisture from the FLUXNET global network (R.DeJeu) Interpretation of CAROLS L-band measurements in the Gulf of Biscay (J.Boutin) 15:00 Test of algorithms for the retrieval of soil moisture and woody biomass in forests (S.Paloscia) The MedArgo program and SMOS validation in the Mediterranean Sea (J.Font) 15:30 How will dew affect SMOS data? A case study in the agricultural midwest (B.Hornbuckle) The GLOSCAL project and observations of near sea surface salinity variability (J.Boutin) 16:00 SMOS validation in Poland (W.Marczewski) Influence of Land and Sea Surface Roughness on SMOS SSS retrieval in coastal seas (D.Burrage) 16:30 Distributed temperature sensing for large scale soil moisture observations during SMOS cal/val (N.VanDeGiesen) HUT-2D data analysis over a strong salinity gradient (F.Martin-Porqueras and J.Kainulainen) 17:00 Comparison of two surface reflectivity models and validation with radiometer measurements (M.Schwank) SMOS Validation in the Tropical Atlantic using AMSR-EOS, Ocean Color and In situ Data (N.Reul) 17:30 SMOS Validation Rehearsal Campaign at the VAS site (E.Lopez) Level 2 processing of HUT2D measurements (M.Talone and J.Font) 18:00 HUT2D measurements of soil moisture in northern areas (M.Hallikainen) EMIRAD observations of SSS gradients (N.Skou)
	20:00	ESA Sponsored Dinner
Friday 13 March 2009
	09:00-13:00	Summary of Parallel Sessions General Status of Preparation; Recommendations & Conclusions
	13:00-14:00	Buffet Lunch
	09:20	Special Meeting for the Validation Campaign Participants